131st. (Adams Papers)
Miss B. Palmer, came from Germantown, this afternoon, to spend the night here. We prepared to return to Cambridge as our vacation closes this day.
2To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 31 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
In your Letter of the 19 th May last, you were pleased to inform us that you had already accepted Bills which had been drawn on you to a considerable amount by M r. Barclay and Lamb, in consequence of the appropriation which had been made by Congress for forming Treaties with the Barbary Powers; but as we have no advice from you since that date, we are at a loss to know whether the whole or...
L’accueil, dont vous m’avez honorés pendant votre Sejour dans cette Republique et les marqúes d’estime et d’amitie, avec lesquelles vous m’aves daigné de favoriser, m’ont animé, d’interrompre vos occupations Serieuses, et d’implorer en vous les secours d’un ami, qui je hesiterai de vous communique en qualite d’Ambassadeur, n’etant point accoutumé, de faire la cour aux gens en place, et ne...
4[Diary entry: 31 October 1786] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 31st. Mercury at 41 in the Morning—42 at Noon and 42 at Night. Wind pretty fresh at No. West in the Morning but cloudy which it continued to be through the day with Mists in the afternoon and rain at Night, the wind getting round to No. Et. After breakfast I left Govr. Smallwoods & got home to dinner. Attempted to cross at the Widow Chapmans in order to pay Colo. Mason a visit but...
5From George Washington to the Society of the Cincinnati, 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
I take this early opportunity, in my character of President of the Cincinnati, of announcing to you, that the triennial General Meeting of the Society is to be convened at the City of Philadelphia on the first Monday of May in the year 1787. As it will not be in my power (for reasons which I shall have the honor of immediately communicating) to attend the next General Meeting; and as it may...
6From George Washington to Henry Lee, Jr., 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am indebted to you for your several favors of the 1st 11th & 17th instt, and shall reply to them in the order of their dates:But first let me thank you for the interesting communications imparted in them. The picture which you have drawn, & the accts which are published, of the commotions & temper of numerous bodies in the Eastern States, are equally to be lamented and deprecated. They...
7To George Washington from George McCarmick, 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
I here inform you of the two Expedition against the Indians. the Seventeenth of Sept. Genl Clark Crossed the ohio River at the falls, to Go up the wawbash River, with aleven hundred and Eighty men and artilrey. the artilarey went up the wawbash and the men and Cattle and baggage went by land—Colo. lowgan Crossed the ohio, the first Day of Octobr with Eight hundred and Seventy men at the Mought...
8From George Washington to William Moultrie, 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
As soon as your Excellency’s favor of the 7th of Augt, came to my hands, I forwarded the enclosure therein, to Mr Brindley, under cover to Saml Hughes Esqr. Herewith you will receive their answers. Presuming that your Excelly is President of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of South Carolina, I have the honor of addressing the enclosed circular letter to you. If I am mistaken, I pray...
9To George Washington from Bushrod Washington, 31 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
The motives which gave birth to the Society, were these. We conceived, that in a government where the voice and sentiments of the people are delivered by representation, the few who are elected to speak these sentiments are the servants of the electors; that in grand points of national concern, the people are the best judges of their wants, their own interests, and can more sensibly feel those...
⟨J. M. In Virga. Legislature previous to Convention of 1787⟩ Genl. [Regns. neces]sary, whether the object be to Ms ( DLC ). In JM’s hand. On the verso are JM’s Notes for Speech Opposing Paper Money, ca. 1 Nov. 1786 . JM apparently made these notes from his Notes for Debate on Commercial Regulations by Congress, 30 Nov.–1 Dec. 1785 ( Papers of Madison William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The...